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2024

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Guidelines for the 2025 Budget - Section III (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, of course, we are discussing the broad lines of the 2025 budget. Someone else will finalize: a new Commission, a new Parliament. My perplexity is why, if we always say that we must have social cohesion in the internal market, that we must support SMEs, that we must support research and innovation, why we do not arrive after so many years making bud…

13

Mar

2024

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Finland, Petteri Orpo (debate)

The Prime Minister has said here several times: “must, must, must”. I want to ask you whether, from what the Prime Minister has presented here, you understood that we all have equal opportunities in the European Union now? The Prime Minister was also Minister of Agriculture. I ask you, the Prime Minister has used the word ‘must’ several times (The speaker is interrupted for technical reasons). The…

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Mar

2024

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Question Time with Commissioners - Preparedness of EU governments to combat foreign interference, including from Russia

Mr President, Commissioner, of course we are debating a very important topic, especially since we have so many elections this year. Do you think it is important to be concerned about all elections, not just elections at the level of the European Parliament? Because, in the end, elections at local level, at national level, national parliaments, those will then influence the outcome of the elections…

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Mar

2024

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Council decision inviting Member States to ratify the Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190) of the International Labour Organization (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is sad that this year, 2024, we are still discussing violence and harassment against women at work, but also on the street. Maybe we should do a prevention and maybe we should have a much better gender balance in all institutions, because when we have a female majority, there would probably be no violence and harassment in the workplace. I think…

29

Feb

2024

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Next steps towards greater patient safety by swiftly ensuring the availability of medical devices through a targeted transitional period (debate)

Thank you, dear colleague, for your question. Yes, I'm an engineer by profession and I've never gone on improvisation. It is good to make sure that everything that is placed on the market also has the safety of using devices.…

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Feb

2024

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Next steps towards greater patient safety by swiftly ensuring the availability of medical devices through a targeted transitional period (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is very good that we are discussing patient safety today. It's late. After 12 years, we're going to change the rules. Too much of us follow the ‘better late than never’ principle. Domnule comisar, în țara mea și în multe alte țări pacienții nu au acces la dispozitive. Be scheduled in three months for a C.T. or CT scan. Not to have access to a pr…

28

Feb

2024

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Strengthening European Defence in a volatile geopolitical landscape - Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2023 - Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2023 (joint debate - European security and defence)

Madam President, Commissioner, we are discussing strengthening common defence. Very little has been said about peace. The President of the Commission leaves again after she has made her point of view known. It is not interesting to hear Parliament's views. Yes, of course we need to strengthen our defenses, but we also need to fight for peace. This is what European citizens expect, and look, my cou…

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Feb

2024

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Geographical Indications for wine, spirit drinks and agricultural products (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, today I am glad that we are coming to talk about this regulation, which I fought for when I was in the employers' movement. I believe that geographical indications for wine, spirits, but also for agricultural products bring effects including in the circular economy, preserve cultural traditions, and small producers in rural areas can develop touris…

27

Feb

2024

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Unitary supplementary protection certificate for plant protection products - Unitary supplementary certificate for medicinal products - Supplementary protection certificate for plant protection products (recast) - Supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products (recast) - Standard essential patents (joint debate - Patents)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, of course the regulation makes sense. We need to see how we can protect intellectual property. My problem, from the point of view of small and medium-sized enterprises, from the point of view of the internal market (I am the Vice-President of the internal market): I believe that the regulation will have detrimental effects on small, small and mediu…

27

Feb

2024

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Driving licences (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we are discussing an extremely important thing if we start from statistics and we are well aware that we have a lot of road accidents. It was normal to come up with a proposal and improve traffic conditions. It is strange to hear colleagues here say that it would cost us to have a medical visit at 15 years old. I strongly support it, because we …

27

Feb

2024

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Multiannual financial framework for the years 2021 to 2027 - Establishing the Ukraine Facility - Establishing the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (‘STEP’) (joint debate - multiannual financial framework revision)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, of course this is a step and it is the first step we are taking to revise the financial framework, but I am sceptical because, Commissioner, did you say, at the end of your presentation, 'the need to increase competitiveness'? I speak from an internal market perspective, I am the Vice-President of the internal market. It is not normal to review …

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Feb

2024

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Tackling the inflation in food prices and its social consequences and root causes (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we are discussing food price inflation. Commissioner, you came and told us a story here. Nothing happened. We're talking about causes, root causes. Do you know what the root cause is? It's speculation, Commissioner, because it's speculation. The farmer sells his wheat for less, but the bread is more expensive on the shelf. The farmer sells his milk…

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Feb

2024

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Transparency and targeting of political advertising (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, today we are talking about what we can do with this regulation so that there is this balance between transparency and the right to expression. We all know, I don't think there is a country where there has not been interference in elections, for example, an attack on democracy, as the Commissioner said. It's fine and we're taking some steps with the…

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Feb

2024

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European Central Bank – annual report 2023 (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, Mrs Lagarde, I come from a more recent country in the European Union, Romania. The main task of the bank, as has been said here, is price stability. The fantastic loss has reached the citizens. We have a lot of poor citizens, Mrs. Lagarde, who can't even buy bread. Inflation has not been curbed. We have to go from results. "It means that the policies you have applied ha…

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Feb

2024

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This is Europe - Debate with the President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis (debate)

Madam President, Mr President, dear Minister and the whole team, at first I want to thank you for describing my country so beautifully. That is so and I would like, dear colleagues, those who today have tried to blame her, to understand Romania. Visit her first, talk to the people there and understand her. Mr. President, I will be objective. I want to raise the issues that I have raised before all…

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Feb

2024

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Empowering farmers and rural communities - a dialogue towards sustainable and fairly rewarded EU agriculture (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we have a priority debate with farmers on the street and the Commissioner for Agriculture is not here. How can we debate priority issues for agriculture without the Commissioner who has the job description to deal with it? Thank you, Mr Vice-President, Commissioner, for being here. Neither is the President, nor does she participate in priority d…

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Feb

2024

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Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I will speak from a consumer perspective. I am the Vice-Chair of the Committee on Consumer Protection in the European Parliament. Of course, I am not a specialist, but I am an engineer and I support research and innovation, but it is absurd to apply the result of the research without making an impact analysis. We are talking here about people's …

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Feb

2024

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I want to talk about the internal market, consumer protection and the protection of the internal market. We talk a lot, we debate a lot, the Commission makes cosmetics, but here we are, to serious violations of consumers' rights to know what they consume. Behold, we have farmers on the street all over Europe, because, yes, horsemeat is imported fro…

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Feb

2024

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Union-wide effect of certain driving disqualifications (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the directive that we are debating today, relating to driving disqualifications, has only one purpose: to save lives, to reduce road accidents. Of course, we have road accidents not only because of drivers who may be drunk, use drugs, have excessive speed, but also because of infrastructure, which is another subject, as in all Member States, to man…

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Feb

2024

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State of EU solar industry in light of unfair competition (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I think that we have strayed very far from the title of the debate because we had to talk, in fact, about the situation of solar energy in the context of unfair competition. There was more talk about the energy mix, about what contributions solar energy made. The problem is, Commissioner, if you can tell us, how we are fighting unfair competition. …

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Feb

2024

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Instant payments in euro (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, this regulation has long been awaited. We all have to understand. I'm surprised at the position of some of my colleagues. This regulation actually helps everyone: it helps the consumer, the citizen, it helps SMEs, it helps safety, of course. It also helps the time, the cost. Let's be serious, very often it happens to us that we pay for a commodi…

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Jan

2024

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Situation of fundamental rights in the EU in 2022 and 2023 (A9-0376/2023 - Katarina Barley)

Madam President, it is good that we are looking at the situation of respect for human rights in the European Union. The problem is not only to analyze, the problem is to implement, to function, not to be just a slogan, because if we look now and take a photo of how respect for human rights works in the European Union, we can see ... and I have countless petitions, and at the Committee on Petitions…

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Jan

2024

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Gender aspects of the rising cost of living and the impact of the energy crisis (A9-0430/2023 - Alice Kuhnke)

Madam President, this report is expected in many Member States because, as many colleagues in the European Parliament would say, there is - and statistical data show - a gender difference. Women, of course, are, at least in my country, the majority population, but if we look at the percentage of women in well-paid positions, in leadership positions, even here in the European Parliament, we see tha…

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2024

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Extending the list of EU crimes to hate speech and hate crime (A9-0377/2023 - Maite Pagazaurtundúa)

Madam President, incitement to hatred, we are seeing it increasingly in the global space, but also in the space of the European Union. And although the Commission presented almost two years ago to the Council a communication entitled ‘A more inclusive Europe’, the Council did not take any decision. I believe that we are all confronted in our countries with incitement to hatred and it is extremely …

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2024

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Recent EU-Audits identifying that Uruguayan and Argentinian meat from horses with unreliable sworn declarations and unknown drug history is entering the EU (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, today's topic is extremely important and I am sorry that it comes at the end of the plenary session in Strasbourg. People's health is extremely important, at the same time, fair competition on the domestic market, because now we are talking about importing horse meat from Argentina, from Uruguay, but we also had situations of importing beef from Great Britain, which …